Moog has their factory in East Aurora, NY which is a stones throw from where I type this. East Aurora is also home to Fisher Price, which is a pretty cool industrial combination for a town, if you asked me.

In 1822, Charles Babbage started work on a steam-powered mechanical computer called the Difference Engine. It was never completed.

There is a book by Gibson and Sterling of the same title, I never read it.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

mycetes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bab....htm

Some Little Known Facts
(that you probably don't want to know)

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!)
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still not over that pig thing!)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (So why does a damn PIG have the half hour orgasm!?!?)
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmm.....)
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did the govt. pay for this research??)
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (Creepy!)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig...quality over quantity!)
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, Shit)
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfish don't have brains.